A German-Moroccan fugitive allegedly involved
in the September 11 attacks has been sending email messages
from Pakistan to his wife in Germany, according to a report
to be published on Monday.
The German news magazine Focus says in
its latest edition German police have traced Internet
messages from Said Bhaiji from Islamabad and Lahore in
Pakistan.
The report, which does not quote sources,
says investigators have intercepted 14 email messages
between March and the beginning of July.
An international arrest warrant has been
issued for Bhaiji, who fled Germany shortly before September
11 and is suspected of having belonged to a so-called
“Hamburg cell”, believed to be a rear base
for the September 11 suicide squads.
Bhaiji was born in Germany of a German
mother and a Moroccan father. He is alleged to have been
in charge of the logistics of the Hamburg cell.
He is said to have lived in a Hamburg
apartment belonging to Muhammad Atta, one of the suicide
squads who died in the anti-American attacks, and founder
of the Hamburg group. Focus quotes Bhaiji in the emails
as refusing to turn himself in to the authorities as his
wife requests him to do. “No! I do not want to end
up in a position of weakness towards an infidel,”
he is quoted as saying in one of the messages.
Bhaiji is also quoted as denying that
his companions were involved in the September 11 attacks.
He says instead the attacks were the work of martyrs.
“I am not in a position to say whether those who
committed those attacks will end up in hell,” he
is quoted as writing to his wife who lives in the north
German port city.
